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Your Parenting Brain:

how caring for yourself shapes your baby’s calm, confidence, and connection from pregnancy and beyond. Get instant access to five science-backed tools to reset stress, boost confidence, and strengthen your bond with your baby.

you’ll also receive The New Life Pause, weekly insights to help you find calm and confidence in everyday parenting. Unsubscribe anytime.

making sense of the transition to parenthood

Becoming a parent changes everything: your routines, your relationships, even your brain. Understanding these changes can make the transition easier — and helps you support your baby’s healthy emotional and cognitive development, too.

Whether you’re expecting or already caring for your baby, it’s normal to feel emotional highs, uncertainty, or moments of self-doubt.

This free guide shows you how to work with your parenting brain to feel calmer, more confident, and more connected every day.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Reset stress with small, realistic tools that calm your nervous system.

• Build confidence by understanding how your brain is changing, and why 'baby brain' doesn't do it justice

• Strengthen your bond with your baby through everyday connection.

• Support yourself with gentle, science-backed habits that fit into real life.

your weekly moment to pause

Practical insights: to help you manage stress and support emotional wellbeing.

Gentle reflections: coaching prompts to quiet the inner critic and build self-trust.

Simple lifestyle resets: small habits for rest, nutrition, and balance that actually fit into family life.

Parenthood is a journey of constant change — for your baby and for you. The New Life Pause helps you slow down and reconnect with what both of you need to thrive.

When you download your free guide, you’ll also join The New Life Pause, short, weekly, science-backed insights to help you find calm and confidence in everyday parenting.

Each edition includes:

Connection & compassion: reminders that progress isn’t perfection, and calm is something you can cultivate.

No pressure, no spam — just grounded guidance to help you breathe a little easier each week

a note from Iona

I’m a UKIHCA-registered health coach and parental brain educator with a background in psychology and over eight years’ experience supporting more than 8,000 parents through the mental, emotional, and physical transitions of early parenthood.

Through a blend of neuroscience and compassionate coaching, I’ll help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface — so you can feel calmer, more confident, and more connected to yourself and your baby. Because when you feel calm and supported, your baby’s brain learns safety, connection, and trust — the foundations of lifelong wellbeing.

Because you deserve to enjoy this new chapter, not just survive it.

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